doodle
a drawing made while thinking about something else
TRANSLATION
doodle = das Gekritzel, die Kritzeleien --- GOOGLE INDEX doodle: approximately 58,000,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
The Guardian reports that a DOODLE drawn by Damien Hirst in a Soho club is being put up for auction this week.
(BBC News)
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BBC apologizes over obscene Prince William DOODLE.
(BusinessWeek magazine)
(BBC News)
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BBC apologizes over obscene Prince William DOODLE.
(BusinessWeek magazine)
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doodle
noun
- a picture or pattern drawn while thinking about something else or when you are bored
verb
- to draw pictures or patterns while thinking about something else or when you are bored
(Cambridge Dictionaries Online)
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A doodle is an unfocused or unconscious drawing made while a person's attention is otherwise occupied. Doodles are simple drawings that can have a specific meaning, or they may just be abstract shapes.
Doodles are often drawn by bored or daydreaming students, as well as bored or daydreaming office workers. Some business people sarcastically blame the overuse of Power Point presentations for a corresponding increase in conference room doodles. If we had to choose one thing that is responsible for most doodles however, it would be the telephone.
According to the Oxford Dictionaries, doodle first appeared in the early 17th century in the sense of a fool or simpleton and may have derived from the Low German Dudeltopf or Dudeldop, meaning simpleton or noodle. In the early 18th century doodle was used as a verb meaning to cheat, swindle or make a fool of someone.
The modern meaning emerged in the 1930s either from this meaning or from the verb "dawdle," a word that originated in the 17th century meaning to waste time or be lazy.
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SYNONYMS
sketch, rough drawing, illustration, picture, outline
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"I have to replace the notepad on my desk. It’s full of doodles."
noun
- a picture or pattern drawn while thinking about something else or when you are bored
verb
- to draw pictures or patterns while thinking about something else or when you are bored
(Cambridge Dictionaries Online)
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A doodle is an unfocused or unconscious drawing made while a person's attention is otherwise occupied. Doodles are simple drawings that can have a specific meaning, or they may just be abstract shapes.
Doodles are often drawn by bored or daydreaming students, as well as bored or daydreaming office workers. Some business people sarcastically blame the overuse of Power Point presentations for a corresponding increase in conference room doodles. If we had to choose one thing that is responsible for most doodles however, it would be the telephone.
According to the Oxford Dictionaries, doodle first appeared in the early 17th century in the sense of a fool or simpleton and may have derived from the Low German Dudeltopf or Dudeldop, meaning simpleton or noodle. In the early 18th century doodle was used as a verb meaning to cheat, swindle or make a fool of someone.
The modern meaning emerged in the 1930s either from this meaning or from the verb "dawdle," a word that originated in the 17th century meaning to waste time or be lazy.
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SYNONYMS
sketch, rough drawing, illustration, picture, outline
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"I have to replace the notepad on my desk. It’s full of doodles."
